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ID: 7007654
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7007654
Record Type:
administrative
El Ferrol (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 43 29 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 43.4833
decimal degrees
Long: 008 14 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -8.2333
decimal degrees
Note:
Selected by King Philip V to be site of naval base 1726; shipbuilding yards established by Ferdinand VI 1746-1759; fortifications built & royal naval arsenal set up by Charles III 1769-1774.
Names:
El Ferrol
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
............
shorter name came to be favored 1980s
Ferrol
(
C
,
V
)
El Ferrol del Caudillo
(
H
,
V
)
............
after 1939 in reference to birthplace of Spanish caudillo (head) General Francisco Franco
Ferrol del Caudillo
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Spain
(nation) (
P
)
............
Galicia
(autonomous community) (
P
)
................
Coruña, A
(province) (
P
)
....................
El Ferrol
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
was developed in 18th cen.
city (
C
)
port (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
El Ferrol..........
[
VP
]
....................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IV, 412
....................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
El Ferrol del Caudillo..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.........................................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.........................................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IV, 412
.........................................
Espasa: Enciclopedia universal (1907)
.........................................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.........................................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
.........................................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Ferrol..........
[
VP
]
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
343
Ferrol del Caudillo..........
[
VP
]
...................................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IV, 412
..................
Espasa: Enciclopedia universal (1907)
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-380667
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
343
..................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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